Tusken RTT

Coming along- looking great! Cant tell if your shoulders are just not snapped in yet, looks like they can come way forward. Check on your thigh piece, I think it needs to roll 90 degrees inwards, then your ammo pack roll the other way, but it could just be the pic. Wont be long now!

Looks great to me- I cant even see the seam!

You could do a test spray on some scrap first, but I dont think it will matter. Best part is you can always wipe it off with some thinner. I tried a couple different shades and types before I hit the jackpot.

I'd just hit that notch and the parts abutting it with a nail file, to smooth and round it off with the other curvature of the thigh. Will look perfect from the outside.

Thanks guys! Love the tip on the felt on the TD clips- going to stick some soft sided velcro on the backs right now.

TD looks great, I'm sure glad you posted about it! Not a disaster at all on the shims, just takes time. I did both methods as well with the paste, the wide and the narrow on the seem, but each gets you to the same place after sanding I learned. I ended up not taping off when I sanded, as it blended in better to the original plastic I thought. I had to repeat a few small divets a couple of times with some paste, but eventually you will fill that seem and it will be smooth like all one part! Just a pain I know. I started too with medium sandpaper to get the bulk of the paste down, then the finer and finer grit. Dont forget that color/brand plastic spray paint I posted in the kidney shim post- when you get it sanded down to just the fine seem line that you can barely see, give it a couple of very light dustings with the paint without taping it off. Let it dry and repeat. It will transition perfectly into the original and will make your seem disappear! Your kit is AP and the color is a spot on match. The polish then is the very last step.

You will love it! My armor came right on time from his original estimate, he is great about answering emails and things he saw on my build that needed help he would shoot me over some tips!

Great job!

Appreciate it! Good tip on the wet paper, the sanding sucked! Save more than what you think you will need, there are so many extra $$ here and there I have lost count.

Great call guys; I went to the garage and hit my clips with the hacksaw then the file, took only a minute or so. This will look much better! You will be fixed up quick Alex.

Someone mentioned the TD being high on mine as well; would be interested to see what folks think. I dont see any other way to move the plate down?

A had a couple of different threads- one for the building and shaping of the kidney shims- http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/29077-adding-the-kidney-shim-not-bad-but/ Another for the nearly final product- http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/29203-need-critiques-please-on-ap-build-about-ready-to-submit-for-basic-approval/ Patiently waiting on the GML!

I was noticing on my photos the sides of the newly added kidney shims were 'flaring' out too much, as the bend matched the inner contour of the kidney plate, but did I did not shape it correctly for the bend to match to the abdomen. You can see on these pics how it is bending out away from body rather than matching the abdomen. So after consulting with FISD search forums, decided to give the boiling water trick a try rather than the dreaded heat gun. The water seemed more forgiving in case I screw up. I dipped it in the pan while boiling (just the end part of the shim that I wanted bent, not to the part of the actual weld) for about 20 seconds. It took a couple of dips after the initial one to get it to start to move, but then I slowly was able to bend the sides in a bit. You have to be careful not to press too hard near the area of the weld, or this would pry apart! Pretty happy with the results! I need to tighten my strapping a few mm still, but the bend is much better now between the kidney and abdomen! Sorry about the sorry pics, used the phone and not the good camera.

Just make sure you are a slim jim for the AP. I have one, (and it is freeking fantastic) but if you are not like basketball player skinny you will have to build a shim between the ab and kidney. Not out of this world hard, but a lot of extra work for sure. Plenty of threads on here, I made one myself.

Awesome- congrats!

Wow those are fantastic! Hope you took out the Tusken w the saber!

Cutting the thigh tops petrifies me! I can get up/down the stairs, I just make sure I grab the rail (maybe just due to the bad vision) and put both feet on a step before taking another one. If my first troop turns into torture though out will come the snips!

Heck yea! Looking great, congrats! It's like running a marathon for sure. I cant tell if you glued your shin coverstrip or not. I messed up and made mine only 20 mm and I dont think it is quite wide enough- I did not do my homework and should have went with 25mm. That's my next of endless tweeks.

Thanks guys! Yea your right I can push the TD down some for sure better on the belt. I was hoping to do a troop this weekend and walk around some before doing anymore cutting; hoping to not have to make any more adjustments but walking right now is clunky for sure. I sent off pics to my GML a few days ago so checking the emails!

Congrats, great job!

Congrats, great job!

Those cupcakes look fantastic! Your build is coming along, looking good! I know what you mean about the strapping and getting everything to hang correctly. I made so many different length elastic and nylon straps w snaps it's not funny, trying to get everything just right.

Cant wait to see it in action!

Good luck- looks great!

Nice job, looking great!